Confirmation

I'm going to have to post everyday to fit all my thoughts in. Lori and I were both set to go to One Heart Many Hands and really feel God leading us to go. We even had a family member provide most of the registration fee for us which was a huge blessing. Now suddenly we don't have someone to take care of our children while we are gone. We are trying to discern if this is God closing that door or Satan trying to keep us from going. The registration will be due Sunday so there's a bit of a time crunch. I was needing some confirmation and went to the Our Daily Bread devotional and today's devotion was on Phillipians 2. See my previous post. That was the passage that God led me to for this trip. The whole situation got me feeling down and questioning our calling to missions when my son's devotional tonight referenced Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. I feel more strongly than ever that God is bringing us much closer to going overseas. I had several people bring to my attention that we could just be "missionaries" to people around here because there are many people needing help. In a sense they are right. We are all called to be missionaries in our own neighorhoods and jobs. God has just called my family to go to a different culture to tell them the good news of Jesus. We are still not totally set on what to do about our mission trip this summer but will continue to pray.